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if you are expecting a true adaptation of the manga (like what the anime should have been!), this isn't it. what this movie does is remove all of the awful stuff (mindless violence, nudity, awful character traits, gore, cursing) and crams it into a R rated movie.
if you're ok with that, then this movie is great. the director and set designer did an amazing job with recreating the hollow world of the manga. one minor complaint is that the characters weren't built up. kei is a complete turd in the manga (but not that much in the anime) and that's completely removed from the movie. characters seemed sorta hollow because of the lack of character development.
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PROS:
+ Outstanding 2000s, moody tone that pairs nicely with the story
+ Interesting story/concept
+ While the pacing is slow, it never gets boring
+ Deep amount of details to the main characters
CONS:
- Despite dishing out plenty of action, GANTZ is more of a mystery/drama
- Some scenes are unsettlingly silent and absent of notable background music
I'm glad I finally got around to watching GANTZ! There are several aspects of other movies present here. Surprisingly, it handles everything in a cohesive, mature, and interesting manner.
I've never watched the anime, so I don't know how this compares. This film is strange and cool enough for me to recommend regardless!
8/10
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Interesting sci-fi, BUT.
I'm writing this from the perspective of someone who has never read the manga, watched the animes or played the game. Gantz isn't 'bad' but it's not great. It's pretty unique and well-made, but it doesn't really GO anywhere. IMO, the plot does not advance enough. Without spoilers, the plot is basically: be summoned, battle an enemy, people die, those who survive go back, and then are summoned, battle another enemy, etc (the process repeats 3x). I wouldn't call this a fatal flaw, though, since this might be what some people are looking for, and the sci-fi elements are pretty cool and the aliens are different from what you see in western media. I just feel like it was very repetitive and a lack of deeper character development meant that when characters were killed I wasn't particularly bothered by it. More specifically, I just finished Alice in Borderland, which properly developed characters and therefore deaths were extremely painful and gut-wrenching to watch, so by comparison Gantz fell short here IMO. Still, Gantz isn't 'bad' in this respect.However, when it comes to the presentation of female characters, Gantz is god-awful.
The focus on the MC's perverted desires at the start & the way he treats women is uncomfortable, but that wasn't the worst part. The presentation of female characters is just the epitome of 'male-gaze'. That is the one thing in this movie that I absolutely hated, and meant it had very little re-watch value to me. Female characters in this movie only existed for the men, only really talked to or about the men, and only existed to further the character development/storylines of the men. Definitely would not pass the Mako-Mori test in any way, shape, or form haha. It's a pity that a promising sci-fi movie (/movie series) couldn't develop the characters properly. If they were going to make the presentation of female characters so offensively bad they might as well have just made it a male-only cast. If you can get over that and are fine with female characters being mostly just delicate and tearful and/or only existing to advance the plotlines of the male main characters (eg. profess their love for them, rely on them, save them, do/say X to improve their self-worth), then I would say give it a go. It's not great but it's interesting sci-fi
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Gran adaptación, muy buena película
Bueno, de Gantz había leído más o menos lo que abarca esta primera película (son dos), y en general me había gustado bastante (obviando todas las partes gratuitamente sexuales), así que imagínense mi alegría cuando me di cuenta de que esta era una adaptación más que decente en la que habían suprimido todo lo subido de tono.Habiendo dicho esto, paso a hablarles de la película en sí:
Cuando vi que duraba un poquito más de dos horas, dudé. Pensé que se me iba a terminar haciendo un poco larga ya que no le tenía tanta fe, pero por suerte nada que ver. Es un live action súper dinámico al que no le falta acción y que encima intriga mucho. Literalmente, antes de darme cuenta, ya había pasado como una hora. En cuanto al ritmo, una maravilla.
Otra cosa que está súper bien es todo el aspecto visual. Para ser una película del 2011, los efectos especiales me gustaron un montón. A ver, algunos son un poquito cuestionables, sobre todo los que aparecen en el enfrentamiento final, pero no son para nada criticables. Y las peleas están muy bien logradas.
Pasando a los actores, los protagonistas son perfectos. Kenichi Matsuyama como Masaru me dio mil años de vida y Kazunari Ninomiya como Kei me terminó sorprendiendo para bien (más allá de que físicamente me parecen espectaculares los dos). Los personajes secundarios tal vez no destacan tanto como ellos, pero ninguno me hizo ruido, todos están bastante bien.
En fin, esta primera película de Gantz no solo me gustó mucho como adaptación, sino que también me pareció una película más que recomendable si quieren ver algo entretenido, bastante bien logrado y con mucha sangre. No sé bien qué esperar de la continuación, pero tengo ganas de verla lo antes posible.
PD: Los trajes son espectaculares.
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